GUOQUAN (02517) rose over 6%, with a gain of 6.02% to HK$3.7 at the time of writing, and a turnover of HK$64.5729 million.

On January 6, 2026, GUOQUAN Stir-Fry commenced trial operations for its first store.

Reportedly, the project utilizes smart cooking machines as its core component, leveraging GUOQUAN's key strengths in compound seasonings and food ingredient supply chains, aiming to provide the public with freshly prepared Chinese meals that balance efficiency and taste within community settings.

Huaxi Securities believes that the new business format "GUOQUAN Stir-Fry" optimizes labor efficiency through smart cooking machines to achieve standardization and utilizes multi-faceted data analysis to curate the most popular product menus; once the model is proven successful, it has the potential to become a new profit growth driver for the company.

Zhongtai Securities pointed out that the company has deep expertise in the food and beverage retail business, with its moat consisting of a deeply integrated supply chain that ensures product quality and cost leadership, a sales network of over ten thousand community stores enabling comprehensive fulfillment, and a highly engaged membership operation system; the company benefits in the short term from growth driven by same-store sales improvements and optimization of cost-to-efficiency ratios, and in the long term from store expansion, the successful validation of new scenarios and business models, and increased profitability and scale resulting from a higher proportion of self-produced goods from its factories.